This paper addresses the question as to what sort of role storytelling plays in the formal mentoring process. Firstly, the individual’s personal competence which is divided into knowledge and socially based competencies, and how this competence alters in the course of the individual’s working life, is illustrated. Secondly, due to the fact that the mentor’s competence is transferred from his or...

This report focuses on the research possibilities of Interactive Storytelling, concretely in the potential of developing different cinematic tools w ithin a storytelling system, with the intention to provide strong, advanced and coherent narrative capabilities in a virtual environment where stories are generated with virtual actors. The context of the proposal is a virtual scenario, developed w...

The “Coming Home” project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies was started in 2009 to research how virtual worlds could facilitate health care activities for returning US military personnel, who frequently suffer from psychological and physical challenges. These challenges include increased stress and loss of selfesteem related to the war events they ha...

background and aim: accidents can happen to children more than other age groups. given their specific behavioral and physiological traits, children require care on the part of adults. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of two educational methods based on orem’s self-care model, i.e. storytelling and lecturing, on knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy of mothers of children 1 to 59 months ...

the storytelling with picture (pardeh-khani), as one of the traditional forms of theatre in iran has many capabilities in artistic and dramatic expression. yet, about this kind of traditional theatre, many researches has been accomplished about its structure and performing methods. the main question of this article is that, is it possible to use this theatrical form in one of the most important...

‘Implicit Creation’ – Non-Programmer Conceptual Models for Authoring in Interactive Digital Storytelling Ulrike Martina Spierling Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) constitutes a research field that emerged from several areas of art, creation and computer science. It inquires technologies and possible artefacts that allow ‘highly-interactive’ experiences of digital worlds with compelling st...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a nurse-led storytelling intervention for patients with cancer and implement the intervention using trained oncology nurses. DESIGN Descriptive pilot project using qualitative methods to assess implementation of an intervention tool kit, with investigators blinded to control and intervention group membership. SETTING Local regional medical center in the Pacific...

In contrast to full-blown emotions, storytelling speech entails a particular speaking style that contains subtle expressive nuances of which little is known. In the present work, we study the role of prosody and voice quality while searching for crosslinguistic acoustic similarities in two categories of storytelling speech that are defined by their lexical components: the descriptive mode and s...

This article introduces OPARIS, an OPen ARchitecture for Interactive Storytelling, which aims at facilitating and fostering the integration of various and heterogeneous Interactive Storytelling components. It is based on a modular decomposition of functionalities and a specification of the various messages that different modules exchange with each other.

In this paper we introduce the notion of character’s values to mediate between agents and story direction in storytelling systems. By relating characters’ goals with their values, the activation of goals depends on the values that are put at stake by the story incidents. Based on this framework, we propose a reference architecture for value–based interactive storytelling.